I think lots of people know perfectly well they’re being cheated and betrayed, but most people are too scared or too comfortable to say anything. It doesn’t help to protest or complain, either, because the people in power don’t pay any attention.

—Rebecka Lind in The Terrorists (by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, p. 269)

Recently—no, for as long as I can remember—large and powerful nations within the capitalist bloc have been ruled by people who according to accepted legal norms are simply criminals, who from a lust for power and financial gain have led their peoples into an abyss of egoism, self-indulgence and a view of life based entirely on materialism and ruthlessness toward their fellow human beings. Only in very few cases are such politicians punished, but the punishments are token and the guilty persons’ successors are guided by the same motives.

—Rebecka’s defending counsel (p. 286)

My turn to start? Then I say X——X as in Marx. (p. 347)